Cellular antenna switches for multimode applications based on a Silicon-on-Insulator technology

Author

Tombak, Ali ; Iversen, Christian ; Pierres, Jean-Blaise ; Kerr, Dan ; Carroll, Mike ; Mason, Phil ; Spears, Eddie ; Gillenwater, Todd

Author_Institution

RFMD Inc., Greensboro, NC, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 May 2010

Firstpage

271

Lastpage

274

Abstract

A Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology on high resistivity silicon substrates is presented for the design of cellular antenna switches. The design and measurement results for an SP9T cellular antenna switch based on this technology are presented. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of an SP9T cellular antenna switch with adequate intermodulation and harmonic distortion performance on a high resistivity SOI CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; antennas; silicon-on-insulator; substrates; switches; SOI CMOS technology; SP9T cellular antenna; cellular antenna switches; harmonic distortion; high resistivity silicon substrates; intermodulation; multimode applications; silicon-on-insulator technology; 3G mobile communication; CMOS technology; Conductivity; GSM; Insertion loss; Integrated circuit technology; PHEMTs; Radio frequency; Silicon on insulator technology; Switches; RF switch; SOI; SP9T; antenna switch; blocker; harmonics; high resistivity silicon; intermodulation distortion; multimode; silicon-on-insulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6240-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477354

Filename

5477354